26 Jan
2008
26 Jan
'08
2:50 a.m.
Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Perhaps you could assist a little bit further,
since, you working on
the DOSbox emulator. I am looking for some old DOS based Copy
Protection bypass tools as the Atari disks are copy protected so as not
to be able to read the directories on the disk and/or the disk giving a
read error. The disks will only work if they are booted up directly
on post and directly go into the games, they can't be f6'd or f8'd to
break them, its very odd, so I would like to make copies of the disks so
they don't go bad and I lose the games, but more importantly so I can
copy the contents to a directory that I can mount through DOSbox and
access and run the games, so your assistance on pointing me to a good
DOS copy protection disk resource would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
Those disks are all booters (ie. they contain a small boot loader and
boot themselves -- no DOS needed, and they're not DOS-readable disks).
The only way to make backups are:
- Central Point Option Board (hardware copying solution)
- CopyIIPC or CopyWrite (software-based copying programs)
- for some games, Teledisk can copy them (ducking a tomato thrown by Chuck!)
- Ask me nicely for a diskette image of the game(s) in question where
the copy-protection has been removed
Option #4 is probably what you want, and should be made off-list.
PS: I own all the Atarisoft PC booters ;-)
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